There’s nothing more satisfying than designing a living space to reflect your particular style and personality. Whether it's choosing the perfect paint shade to liven up the walls of your bedroom to curating a welcoming atmosphere for your dining room to customizing your living room with built-in shelving, the feeling of knowing your home is exactly to your taste is unmatched. Amanda Edgmon, co-owner of Stone Harbor Custom Homes, knows this feeling all too well and has dedicated her career to helping homeowners bring their design visions to life.
Stone Harbor Custom Homes is an award-winning custom home builder that’s been serving Northwest Arkansas for over 30 years. Co-led by Edgmon and her mother, Dorothy Samuels (the company’s founder), the custom home builder roots every project on intentionality and trust building through a unique philosophy. Instead of immediately discussing extensive lists of wood grains, wall colors and square footages with a client, Edgmon comes prepared with personalized questions intended to help her form a deeper understanding of client needs and personalities. By building connections with her clients and learning about their routines and life experiences, Edgmon provides a relational approach to a custom home build, ensuring that the level of quality design and craftsmanship the company offers is specifically tailored for each homeowner.
To Edgmon, these discovery meetings help her recognize the specifications and design a client needs to elevate their project from a house to a home.
“The best homes begin with understanding the people who will live in them,” Edgmon said. “Before we talk about floor plans, we talk about how our clients want to live.”
When a client approaches Stone Harbor with custom home designs, the builders are ready for anything that comes their way. Stone Harbor partners with renowned local design and architecture firms that allows them to tackle projects of all design styles, builds and specialized requirements.
“I don’t like building the same thing all the time,” Edgmon said. “I love it when clients bring me plans and designs for a unique home. It gives me a challenge.”
Choosing to pursue a custom home through Stone Harbor comes with several benefits, says Edgmon. Buying a house as-is limits homeowners through predetermined home layouts, and demolition can lead to unexpected delays. By choosing to pursue a custom home build based on trust and collaboration, clients are in total control from the beginning. They are empowered to approve floor plans, select the building materials being used and request creative inclusions such as a fireplace, high windows or exposed ceiling beams.
Stone Harbor has been a trusted home builder for over three decades, and it's the company’s commitment to relationship building that separates it from its competitors, according to the company. The company believes each project is about providing clients with a home that fits their exact needs, and this practice results in high satisfaction rates. Edgmon says clients consistently express pride for choosing Stone Harbor as their custom home builder. Additionally, past recipients of a Stone Harbor custom build allow the company to host walkthroughs through their homes so prospective homeowners can witness the quality and care the builders give to their clients.
“I always want to be a builder that clients enjoy working with,” Edgmon said. “If you hate your builder by the time a project is completed, then something went wrong.”
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The best homes begin with understanding the people who will live in them.